the.com/codec
The bilingual middleman that squeezes reality into bits and unpacks it on arrival.
means Software or hardware that compresses data for storage or transmission, then decompresses it for playback.
from A 1950s portmanteau of coder-decoder, born when engineers loved smashing two words into one efficient package.
Lossy vs losslessOne forgets details forever, one remembers everything perfectly.
Codec warsH.264, VP9, AV1 fight over your streaming bandwidth.
Not a formatCodec is the method; container is the box.